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Lock down DNS with these tips

Drive-by adviceI'm really disappointed in this article even though it has a couple of good recommendations it misses out on so much more. What about disabling recursion where possible, restricting zone transfers & queries from unknown sources?My biggest gripe is this...what's the point of limiting zone transfer traffic if the...

Tags: acls, advertisement, DHCP, dns, Drive-By, firewalls, mark@..., microsoft, recursion, resolution, security

Discussion threads 2006-09-22

(Photos: Drive-by hacks from a suitcase)

Too AggressiveI disable all wireless including bluetooth connections on new computers in our organization as these devices are too aggressive in acquiring all available connections. Users who need these devices are cautioned about the risks involved before they are enabled. I wish there were an on/off switch.would they use the...

Tags: PhotoS, Drive-By, bluetbag, Bluetooth, Transportation Security Administration, wmlundine@..., networking, photograph

Discussion threads 2006-08-04

Additional Resources

New Hard Drive Installation

I am installing a new hard drive in my PC. The old hard drive is partitioned, with "C:" being the Primary and "D" being Secondary. If I setup the old hard drive as the "Slave" can I just transfer the files from the old hard drive to the...

Tags: new Hard Drive, old hard drive, hard drive, gbalonek@..., hardware, Serial ATA

Q&A 2006-03-13

Offloading information off a bad hard drive

Greetings,I have a laptop in my possesion that has a bad hard drive, it says there is no operating system when booting. I have use Knoppix to get into the drive, I am trying to save the pictures off the drive before reformatting and reloading windows back on the...

Tags: dawnrabbit69@..., hard drive

Discussion threads 2007-05-04

Plugging in flash drive - no drive letter provided

Each time I plug in my 2GB flash drive the laptop makes a noise to indicate the drive has been found and shows the found hardware ballon but it does not give me a drive letter and I cannot find the drive on any of the allocated drive letters.Can anyone...

Tags: bldsm@..., "flash drive" "drive letter" "disk drive", hardware, USB flash drive

Discussion threads 2007-02-09

Plugging in flash drive - no drive letter provided

Each time I plug in my 2GB flash drive the laptop makes a noise to indicate the drive has been found and shows the found hardware ballon but it does not give me a drive letter and I cannot find the drive on any of the allocated drive letters.Can anyone...

Tags: bldsm@..., "flash drive" "drive letter" "disk drive", hardware, USB flash drive

Discussion threads 2007-02-09

Plugging in flash drive - no drive letter provided

Each time I plug in my 2GB flash drive the laptop makes a noise to indicate the drive has been found and shows the found hardware ballon but it does not give me a drive letter and I cannot find the drive on any of the allocated drive letters.Can anyone...

Tags: bldsm@..., "flash drive" "drive letter" "disk drive", windows, hardware, USB flash drive

Discussion threads 2007-02-09

20h change on drive

I have a drive that almost every other bit on the drive has the hex value on the drive increased by 20h. I can edit the drive values in the boot sector to get it to boot but it is too much work to continue this process for the...

Tags: Ekiwi, hardware, eerkes

Discussion threads 2004-11-19

Make new drive primary / master

My kids are using a Dell w/ a 120Gb drive and it is slowing down considerably. I have purchased a 320Gb drive but would like to make it primary. What is the least painful way to do this without moving files/programs from the current primary drive?No easy wayThe...

Tags: Cable

Discussion threads 2006-08-13

Moving applications from C drive to D drive

I have an old Sony laptop that has a 10gig drive in it, partitioned approximately in half. The computer works well, but drive C is full and I'd either like to move applications from C to D or repartition the drive to allow more room in drive C....

Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, rmpuck@..., D Drive

Discussion threads 2007-09-27

Flash drive "No Name" issue with OSX

i have a flash drive with an adobe acrobat brochure when i plug the flash drive in on the MAC i get"NO NAME" on the external drive. when i plug the flash drive intoa windows platform computer i see the correct name. Is there a program that can modifiy the...

Tags: support@..., USB flash drive

Discussion threads 2007-08-03

Hard Drive Failure

okay I have a western digtial hard drive its 60gb, one day it just stoped working. There is no clicking sound. The computer will not boot with the drive connected, and if i try to mount the drive via usb once the computer is in windows xp pro then it...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, gtsviper2000@..., hard drive

Discussion threads 2007-07-12

Adding a second hard drive to a Toshiba 6100

I plan to add a second hard-drive to my Satellite Pro 6100 via the slim-select bay. Can anyone fill me in on what is necessary as to formatting the new drive etc?? I plan to use the second drive to mirror the C:/ drive in case the C:/ drive goes...

Tags: add second hard drive, C:/, hard drive, hard drives, hardware, parker7603@..., Toshiba Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-01-10

Replace hard drive on Windows 2003 SBS server

Before purchasing any product, I want to make sure that it is the right product. I have a Windows 2003 SBS server where drive 1 currently is a 80 GB SATA drive containing C: and E: drives and drive 2 is a 80 GB SATA drive that contains the...

Tags: server, Microsoft Windows, hgrossman@..., hard drive, GB Drive, GB SATA, Microsoft Windows 2003

Discussion threads 2007-04-23

data recovery

in windows xp computer , after harddisk failure how can i recover the data from failure harddisk,,,i have try to scan all drives but i am not getting d: drive, that i want to saveIfthe drive won't spin up or the drive electronics have gone bad, the only way most...

Tags: Storage management, singh_vidyanand@..., data recovery, electronics, Drive Manager, hard drive

Discussion threads 2007-07-29

charlene hart editor

I want to use a jump drive from vista home in mirco word transfer to XP micro word. xp will not read the jump drive. what am I doing wrong when applying info to the jump drive from VistaDoes XP *recognize* the drive?When you connect the drive, you should...

Tags: chart63@..., USB flash drive, Does XP

Discussion threads 2007-07-04

Hard drive lost drive letter

I recently formated my C drive and installed MS XP after my 60 gig drive said it was full. I moved all of my music, pics and other files that I didn't want to loose on to a 40 gig back up slave drive. After the install I went to...

Tags: foldbak@..., gig, hard drive, hardware, windows

Discussion threads 2007-01-01

Single disappearing drive mapping

I have one user who has a random disappearing drive mapping. It is always the drive H, which is mapped as his home drive. There is no pattern to it. The other strange part of it is that the user has 4 other drive mappings, all of...

Tags: mckay_mark@...

Discussion threads 2007-06-26

new hard drive

I currently have an old drive as C and a new drive as D. How can I make the D drive my new C and eliminate the old C?Sounds simpleIf on the same cable:Swap the positions of the two HDs, remembering to adjust the jumpers accordingly, making you

Tags: hardware, C-drive, jimpm98@..., C, backup, jumper, cable, hard drive, operating system, D Drive, Serial ATA

Discussion threads 2006-11-11

Exchange of C: Partition to D: Strange thing!

Hi! Everyone, i just formated and reinstalled win XP Service pack 3. Like always i partition my drive into C for the system files and all the programs I'm running, and drive D for my very important staff. When ever I'm doing a new Windows installation i never delete...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, C, lino124, C-drive, D Drive

Discussion threads 2007-02-01